Flexible Funding and Leadership Training Lead to Greater Community Impact
A successful grant program gives nonprofit leaders space and time to strategize.
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Flux to Flex: Takeaways from the 2012 Skoll World Forum
A new brand of social entrepreneurship is emerging.
Leveling the Playing Field
US Federal subsidies encourage waste and incentivize unsustainable business practices.
Five Levers of Social Change: Part 4
Practical Advice Series: Five basic “levers,” or strategies, to help businesses or nonprofits achieve social change.
Another Look at “Carbon for Water” in Western Kenya
There needs to be more scrutiny around the use of the LifeStraw water filter and more debate about the validity of its carbon for water deal.
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The Problem With Fair Trade Coffee
Fair Trade-certified coffee is growing in sales, but strict certification requirements are resulting in uneven economic advantages for coffee growers and lower quality coffee for consumers.
The Truth About Ben and Jerry’s
Contrary to myth, the sale of Ben & Jerry’s to corporate giant Unilever wasn’t legally required.
The Greening of Wal-Mart
For much of its history, Wal-Mart’s corporate management team toiled inside its “Bentonville Bubble,” narrowly focused on operational efficiency, growth, and profits. But now the world's largest retailer has widened its sights, building networks of employees, nonprofits, government agencies, and suppliers to “green” its supply chains. Here's how and why the world’s largest retailer is using a network approach to decrease its environmental footprint – and to increase its profitability.
The Myth of CSR
The problem with assuming that companies can do well while also doing good is that markets don't really work that way
Capitalizing on Convergence
Nonprofits and businesses are converging - in the value they create, the stakeholders they manage, the organizations they form, and the financial instruments they use.